Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-02-03
Washington Letter
(FRoM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE
WASHINGTON, JANUARY 81 1887.

WASHINGTON, JANUARY 81 1887.
Everyone seems to have been sur
nris.d when it was announced that
there was really to be a change IN the
Cabinet soon. SO many unfounded re-
ports of Cabinet changes have found
their way to Washington from dis
lance during the present Admrhsra-
ton that people were not disposed to
credit any rumor on this subject.
But now it is generally believed that
Secretary Manning intends to leave
the Treasury Department after the ad-
journment Of Congress, to accept the
presidency of the new National Bank
of New York, at a salary Of $4,000,
more than twice what he gets as a
~ ember of the Cabinet. There has been
much speculation during the past few
days as to his probable successor, and
az TO whether his resignation has any
thing to do with unpleasantness be,
tween hun and the President.
There has been another woman SUI
tragc debate in the Senate and another
vote with the usual result. "That was
a magnificent triumph, exclaimed
Miss Susan B. Anthony. as she gazed
at the printed record Of the vote Of two
to one against her with which the Sen
ate rejected the Sixteenth Amendment
| There is nothing like her unfalng
cheerfuness in the midst of defeat
She cannot be dismayed by adversely,
and optlmiscally greets every reverse
with smile of hope.
There has also been a rlttling and
spirited Woman S Suffrage convention
at this tayorlte rallylng point Of theirs
since | last wrote you, This was their
nineteenth annual meeting here, and
Miss Anthony says it was one Of the
most successful they have ever had -
The meetings were largely attended
and the speaking Was the best that the
ladies could do They We're much
pleased at the good attendance, and
compared the over flowing audiences
If this winter with the empty benches
which they addressed in years gone by.
/ saving it was now almost the fashion,
able to do to g. to the Woman Rights
convention.
They have planned great celebra.
! ton for next winter, in honor of the
forli,th anniversary OF the beginning
OF their movement An this country
Forty years ago, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, AZ a meeting in Seneca Falls,
N. Y, introduced the first resolution
favoring the franchise Of woman. She
is billed for speech on the same sub
ject at the anniversary celebration, al
though her husband is quoted az Say
ing that she is done with the suffrage
agitation.
Mr.. Stanton said that his wife says
her sex does not want to vote. They
do not suffer any inconvenience from
the lack of the ballot, added he, they
do not desire it to any appreciable ex-
tent, and the suffrage agltators are
banging away at something that offers
no response whatever. He thought ii
one woman in every ten, yes, IN every
hundred, would petition Congress for
the ballot they would get 1t at once.
As the time for the President to sign
or veto the Inter. State commerce bill
approaches. Interest in the subject in
creascs. Senators and Representatives
question each other in order to learn
all the talk of the houses and lobbies,
and reports that the President will
sign it or veto it fly alternately between
the White House and the Capitol.
Assuming that the measure will get
the Executive signature, if there is any
difficulty 10 the selection of men to
serve their country on the railway
comm sslon at $500 a year, it will not
be found 10 the sparsity of candidates,
but rather in the redundancy Of talent
that will be spread before the President
There are about sixty men who have
been mentioned for commissioners,
many of whom have been prominent
and are now relegated to private life.
The issue between the President and
the Senate in regard to the Recorder
Of Deeds is very simple, and cannot,
in its present phase. be distorted into
a question involving the right Of col
orcd democrat to hold Office, as has
been attempted. The people of the
District asked for one of their own men
COR ..e aice. TheSPresident served